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• s  present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
• s  normally existing at birth

• Last week two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that some fat people, rather than being slothful or gluttonous, have an inborn predisposition to gain .
• In darker ages, one man's ability to make another man feel like an ignorant peasant was thought to be an inborn talent of the aristocracy.
• Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude.

• congenital
• innate
• connatural
• inbred

News & Articles

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• 8 Easy Ways to Be Smarter
  Intelligence isn't simply a fixed quantity, a learning expert explained in a talk recently. How smart we are is powerfully affected by our situation, and that's something we can control. Somewhere along the way in life you’ve probably taken an IQ test and were give some number as an answer. That figure -- seemingly definitive and said to portray some inborn capacity -- may have given you the ...
  June 14, 2013 - Inc Magazine
• Sports Perspective: Mayweather vs. Alvarez
  The sporting world, in its very nature, harbors an inherent athletic Darwinism. The strong continually trump the weaker opponents, until only two competitors remain. However, this inborn trait of comp
  June 12, 2013 - Explorer News

Quotes

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• Dmitry Medvedev in guardian.co.uk
  I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the US administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia,Medvedev said.
• Rachel Carson in The Ledger
  If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he or she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in,Carson wrote.
• Cesar Millan in Los Angeles Times
  The best piece of advice I can give the Obama family is wisdom passed down from my grandfather: Never work against Mother Nature,Millan said. "Fulfill your dog's inborn needs -- exercise, discipline, affection, in that order -- and you...